Clip from Chris Morris's new film

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/jan/21/chris-morris-four-lions-sundance

Can't wait, really looking forward to this film!

Me too! Thanks for link

^ He's a regular at Brixton Cycles... Rides a white Roberts road bike with the decals taken off... If God were a comedian...

not the funniest clip but if it's anything like his usual stuff should be a barrel of laughs
good subject
bound to cause a bit of controversy / publicity !

Great stuff, looking good. I think that Chris Morris shows usually need to be watched as a whole; they don't seem to lend themselves to well to 'funny clips'.

This is a must watch. That cilp was hillarious.

^ He's a regular at Brixton Cycles... Rides a white Roberts road bike with the decals taken off... If God were a comedian...

Tourer. God loves tourers.

Great stuff, looking good. I think that Chris Morris shows usually need to be watched as a whole; they don't seem to lend themselves to well to 'funny clips'.

true, but I did actually laugh out loud at this clip, a good sign...

Yeah me too.....'Because she's got a beard'

That is going to be great. I hope it offends many, many people, but I hope he doesn't pay the price with an attempt on his life, like these maniacs are know to do

Stupid terrorists. Not exactly subtle. The ones that killed people on tubes and a bus a few summers weren't stupid, at all, but extremely well co-odinated and cunning. Can't see where the comedy lies, just the usual shock-horror Daily Mail-baiting tactics.

Can't ever get excited about Chris Morris' stuff. Don't know why. Sort of nearly funny but lacking in a certain je ne sais quoi. Too clever-by-half. I liked the stupid over-the-top Newsy Graphics on the Day Today. They were funny. Reality has totally reflected art in that, they've gone bonkers on the news with that now. Some of the anchorman stuff he did himself was great. But remember how you felt when you first saw Nathan Barley? I felt let down. And the Paedogeddon type specials always just annoyed, I couldn't watch more than five minutes of them. I don't think he's the unsurpassed genius that C4 believe he is, who gave him carte blanche to do anything he likes, whenever it suits him, allegedly. (This is the channel that around 2000-2005 thought that Dermot O'Leary was, literally, god's gift to TV presentation, and would foist him onto productions that may or may not have suited him, in order to keep him visible, as a condition for the production securing broadcast. Alledgedly. And the same channel that has done pretty much the same thing with that godawful Big Brother woman, who is fucking annoying now please stop and get rid of her!). You see where I'm going with this? C4 isn't the best arbiter of what's good. It really isn't. Alright so they're probably the best out there, but still not great. Not mindblowing. Just OK. And it's your money, since they are a public service broadcaster, subsidised.

Can't remember the last time I laughed at anything on telly that was trying to make me laugh. Maybe I'm just not amused by it. I'd rather watch the latest David Attenborough and laugh at the funny monkeys. Or the news. Now that shit really is funny. And not just the bullshit that passes for 'news', but the whole presentation is hilarious. The way that Louisa Preston is so conscious of her wonky hooter that she constantly twists her head this way and that to try and make it less noticeable, but never looks straight at the camera. Or how weather presenters always waggle their left elbows when they're trying to look animated. Have a look out for that. Its mesmerising. Or how Emily Maitliss has suddenly gawn all poshe since she got a newsnight job after being just middle of the road on South East News for ages. And that whiny dude who does econmic meltdown scaremongering, what a complete cunt. Fucking fakes. I suppose I've got Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker to thank for making all that stuff look like what it is, bloody hilarious.

Hope I'm wrong and the film's great. But I'm not holding out much hope. It'll be nearly funny. And quite clever and thought provoking, in an 'oooh we're actually quite hypocritical aren't we?' sort of navel-gazing way. Big fucking yawn.

Rides a white Roberts road bike with the decals taken off... If God were a comedian...

You'd lick his balls?

...Not exactly subtle...

 ..Too clever-by-half..

make your mind up

well observed Skully^^ if I saw t.v then I might know what you mean ;-)
give me 'durka durka jihad' anyday,

I kinda know what you mean Skully, but I think the reason I like Chris Morris is that he embraces the awkward silence, the not overtly 'funny' - he leaves a lot open to interpretation, which goes against the traditional setup/punch we're used to seeing on TV. He is a bit wanky yes, but he hits the mark for me more often than not...I can forgive him Nathan Barley simply because Julian Barret was excellent in it...

Nathan Barley was a stroke of genius! But much more thanks to Charlie Brooker rather than Chris Morris.

After working in a design studio in Shoreditch it is just scary how accurate that program got it....

Stupid terrorists. Not exactly subtle. The ones that killed people on tubes and a bus a few summers weren't stupid, at all, but extremely well co-odinated and cunning. Can't see where the comedy lies, just the usual shock-horror Daily Mail-baiting tactics.

Should Islamic terrorism only be dealt with by somber reflection and documentary ?

I think there is room for satire pretty much everywhere.

. . . who gave him carte blanche to do anything he likes . . .

No permission is required to make films.

make your mind up

Mutually exclusive?

By too clever by half I mean that its all a bit knowing and sneery. A bit superior.
By not subtle I mean that showing the terrorists to be stupid isn't really laughing at what is funny, if anything is, about the existence of this sort of 'terrorist cell'. What's perhaps funny (or peculiar?), to me, is the response of shock and horror of the Daily Wail etc, who think the UK's inability to face up to its colonial history, political meddling and oil plundering in the name of freedom through military and 'intelligence' activities is somehow justifiable, and in no way myopic nor serves only the multinationals and their filthy-rich shareholders. It seems to me that it supports the idea that we are free and just 'democracy' and those naughty jihadis are simply barbarous, and wrong, no questions asked. That 'free trade' is some spurious end that justifies these means of war and state terror.

Obviously, I haven't seen the film. So I'm talking a fair amount of bollocks as usual. I'm sure it will be intelligent and thought provoking. Just not funny. Probably.

Should Islamic terrorism only be dealt with by somber reflection and documentary ?

I think there is room for satire pretty much everywhere.

No permission is required to make films.

^No, but money is.

^^true, satire is worth doing, especially with matters that are currently not touched.

Glad you're here tynan.

. . . who gave him carte blanche to do anything he likes . . .

No permission is required to make films.

No, but money is.

This sounds like a bizarre non-sequiter to me - much like . . .

A: "Who said you are free to build a sandcastle on this beach"

B: "No permission is required to build a sandcastle"

A: "No, but you need a small plastic spade"

B: "What the fuck is your point ?"

So . . . . by "who gave him carte blanche to do anything he likes" you meant "who gave him the money to do anything he likes" ? Is that right ?

true, satire is worth doing, especially with matters that are currently not touched.

. . . and especially with Islam as seems to tolerate little in the way of criticism.

You seem hung up on the notion that resources are spent on things you don't like, or that they are given undue hype. Hype is hype, doesn't mean anything, getting annoyed about who gets the hype isn't an avenue worth pursuing.

Mutually exclusive?

By too clever by half I mean that its all a bit knowing and sneery. A bit superior.
By not subtle I mean that showing the terrorists to be stupid isn't really laughing at what is funny, if anything is, about the existence of this sort of 'terrorist cell'. What's perhaps funny (or peculiar?), to me, is the response of shock and horror of the Daily Wail etc, who think the UK's inability to face up to its colonial history, political meddling and oil plundering in the name of freedom through military and 'intelligence' activities is somehow justifiable, and in no way myopic nor serves only the multinationals and their filthy-rich shareholders. It seems to me that it supports the idea that we are free and just 'democracy' and those naughty jihadis are simply barbarous, and wrong, no questions asked. That 'free trade' is some spurious end that justifies these means of war and state terror.

Obviously, I haven't seen the film. So I'm talking a fair amount of bollocks as usual. I'm sure it will be intelligent and thought provoking. Just not funny. Probably.

I just see a 5+ sentence paragraph full of quotation marks.

(This is the channel that around 2000-2005 thought that Dermot O'Leary was, literally, god's gift to TV presentation, and would foist him onto productions that may or may not have suited him, in order to keep him visible, as a condition for the production securing broadcast. Alledgedly. And the same channel that has done pretty much the same thing with that godawful Big Brother woman, who is fucking annoying now please stop and get rid of her!)

Yeah there's a lot of hype around him, but Dermot O'Leary is still the greatest TV presenter of his generation.

Yeah there's a lot of hype around him, but Dermot O'Leary is still the greatest TV presenter of his generation.

Yeah every time he appears on TV I give praise and thank the Lord that at least it's not Vernon Kay....

Yeah there's a lot of hype around him, but Dermot O'Leary is still the greatest TV presenter of his generation.

wtf?!?

wtf?!?

I know, I know, it's controversial. Maybe a top 3 not in order: Dermot, Fearne (either cotton or britain) and chris moyles.

You filthy queer.